Graham Nash, legendary singer-song writer and author of the new book "Wild Tales" tells WSJ's Lee Hawkins that despite YouTube, TV talent shows and celebrity culture, it's harder than ever for musicians to break into the music business. Photo: Associated Press

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I ... you know ... they're being in the music industry he really did have to have a strong sense of musicianship because if you did ... it was more possible than now for someone to walk in ... and see you ... in one sign your spot now ... it happened when we believe the cabin ... the Liverpool what they use to do is aam ... instead of leaker ... lunchtime when all the girls who go to the fish and chip shops on the local code to get lunch ... the cabin started to do lunch time rock'n'roll show ... we played at once ... I'm the guy comes comes up to us after the showing those ... with Asian run Ricketson I knew I would for ... the road and with it ... very interested in the band especially the kid explains guitar with no strings on that was me ... I'd broken my last during the night before and I couldn't afford strings so I played my guitar we knew was going on ... I'm going to school ... the story said he'll come on down to London rebuking you know it ... that was ... that was in nineteen sixty to four months later ... we go down to IMM I mean we make of this reckon we can handle actions ... and once again it was the talent in the Mookie and everything that is so I knew but now today ... you have to break yourself I knew two we have to have a certain amount of critical mass of sales before ... a label will will even look if you do you think it would be easier now ... to make it for you or more difficult ... I think it would be much more to go up to ... be there are millions and millions of musicians ... when I was a kid that there were none and it's a mean you can count on you know it in two hands two feet down there were a lot of people ... to assume ... the will does this ... and it's only ... the low elevation in all the Lubavitch and all the people you know in the early American rock'n'roll there was a business ... going on ... but in the north of England it was like a giant is this ... I think it would be much more difficult now to get to do to calm the way through ... you know when we're fighting for space between you know ... compare that to serve Justin Bieber's mounted ... units like you know ... I think it would be much more difficult now ...